Bag seaming, cutting, and delivering apparatus.



PATENTED DB9. 81, 1907. S. SEYMOUR.

--G. MGNEIL & D.

BAG SEAMING, CUTTING, AND DELIVERING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 21,1905.

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13); tneooeo No. 875.591. I PATENTED DEC. 31, 1907. O. MQNBIL & D. S. SEYMOUR.

BAG SEAMING, CUTTING, AND DELIVERING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV21,1905.

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galvanic-LS {UNITED sTA-TEs PATENT OFFICE.

CHESTER MoNEIL AND DUDLEY S. SEYMOUR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNQRS'TO UNION SPECIAL MACHINE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

- BAG- snamme, CUTTING, AND ELIvERmG APPARATUS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHESTER McNeil. and DUDLEY S. SEYMOUR, citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, in. the county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag Seaming, Cutting, and Delivering Apparatus, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The invention relates to an improvement in apparatus for seaming and delivering bags, and severing the chain of stitching between the bags.

' As herein shown,-the apparatus comprises a bench or table having a series of sewing machines for seaming bags arranged thereon,-

a guiding chute for each pair of machines, having a guiding wall adjacent to each machine, the walls being adapted to deflect the seamed bags to-a common opening, which also has oppositely deflected walls for defiect ing the bags'into another chute, the latter being also connected in a similar way with the delivery opening from another. set of sew;

ing machines, this chute being arran ed on the floor below the sewing machine ta ble, so that the seamed bag from the entire series of machines supported on the table may be delivered to the floor below in one pile, and

there the roper disposition made of them.

While t e'mechanism herein illustrated is one which is deemed desirable and conven ient for the purposes of carrying out the invention, it will be understood that various modifications and changes may be made, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

So far as the device for feeding the sacks is concerned, the ordinary sewin machine feed is the one that would eneral y be used for this purp0s e,'but it wil be understood that other devices could be used for accomplishing this purpose.

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter described and referred to in the appended claims.

Said invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which},

igure 1 is a plan view of an apparatus embodying the invention; Fig.2 is a front elevation, Fig. 3 is an end view, partly in section; and Fig. ,4 is a detail view, illustrating a form of cutting mechanism used in con- Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed November 21, 1905- Serial No. 288.466.

' PatentedDec. 31,1907.

connection with the sewing heads to sever the' chain of stitching between any two successive bags.

In these drawings, A represents a supporting framework or table 'u on which are supported any suitable num er of machines B,

These machines are operwith each sewing machine, .a cutting apparatus for severing the chain of stitching between any two successive bags. This cutting apparatus comprises as herein shown, a continuously running knife member, operated from the main shaft of the sewing machine in any suitable manner, and cooperating with a stationary member. The cloth plate of the sewing machine has in rear of the needle and feeding mechanism, an elongated slot, so-arranged that when a be is fed ofi from the machine, the chain of stitching between it and the succeedin bag will be drawn into the slot 1, in the 0 0th plate and into the path of movement of the knife blades 2, 3, the knife blade operating to sever the chain. This particular form of cutting device forms no part of the present invention, but is simply shown by way of illustration, and as forming an important feature in the combination. It is, however, shown, described and claimed in an application filed by Dudley S. Seymour, Jan. 2, 1906, Serial No. 294,255.

In rear of the bed plate of each machine, is a wall D inclined downwardly, the walls of each set of two machines being inclined toward each other, forming an inclined chute Ell, extending down as far as the floor. From t e war each other, meetin in the vertical chute F below the floor, tirou h which the bags are delivered to the floor elow, where proper disposition is made of them.

Havingv thus described our invention, what We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein described apparatus for making sewed articles including in combination a worktable, a sewing machine mounted thereon, a cutting mechanism for severing the chain of stitches between the sewed articles carried by said machine and oint 1) two of the chutes E, 'incline toloo ' described. v

2. The herein described apparatus for making sewed articles including in combination a work table a sewing machine mounted thereon, a cutting mechanism for severing the chain of stitches between the articles carried by said machine and located at the rear edge of said table, so that as the sewed articles are fed from the table, the chain of stitches is positioned in said cutter, a guiding channel for receiving said sewed articles havingone of its walls extending beneath the said work table so that said sewed articles will be fed from the said table to said guiding channel.

8. The herein described apparatus for chines mounted 011 said work table, a cutting mechanism for each machine for severing the chain of stitches between sewed articles, said cutting mechanism being located at the rear edge ofsaid table so that as the sewed articles are fed from the table the chain of stitches will be positioned in said cutter, a guiding chute or channel for each set of two machines so located relative to said machines that said sewed articles are fed directly into the same and a common guiding'chute or channel into which two of the first named guiding chutes or channels lead; substan tially as described.

In testimony whereof we allix our signatures, in presence of two witnesses.

' CHESTER MGNEIL.

DUDLEY S. SEYMOUR. Witnesses:

Cims. RATCLIFFE, F. Y. MACK. 

